Dotfiles

My dotfiles.

Using dotbot with some Dotbot plugins

Additions over vanilla dotbot:

• Customized install script that supports multi-machine profiles and auto-discovers and configures dotbot plugins.
• Ability to run ansible to handle more complex configuration steps.

Installation

Install homebrew Install required tools: brew install ansible git

cd ~
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ycanty/dotfiles

dotbot and its plugins run better with python3. Make sure python3 is the default.

./install -c programming/python
pyenv install 3.10.0
pyenv global 3.10.0
pyenv rehash

Upgrade

cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule update --remote dotbot plugins/*
git status
# if there are changes:
git add .
git commit -m "Upgraded dotbot and plugins"

Usage

cd ~/dotfiles
./install --help
./install --profile <profile-name>
./install --config <config-name> --config <another-name> [...]

Design

ansible/  # ansible config to run ansible shell step
configs/  # dotfile configurations
dotbot/   # dotbot tool, as a git submodule
plugins/  # dotbot plugins.  Content auto-discovered by install script
profiles/ # configuration profiles.  Lists configs to install
install   # the main install script

TODO

• setup duckdns config (get token using lpass)
• setup .ssh keys (get private key using lpass)
• Setup macos defaults (e.g. https://www.defaults-write.com) or https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos

References

The following provided me the inspiration for this project:

• https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins
• https://www.viget.com/articles/zsh-config-productivity-plugins-for-mac-oss-default-shell/
• https://www.twilio.com/blog/using-dotfiles-productivity-bootstrap-systems
• https://driesvints.com/blog/getting-started-with-dotfiles/
• https://frkl.io/blog/managing-dotfiles/
• https://www.anishathalye.com/2014/08/03/managing-your-dotfiles/
• https://grantammons.me/2017/11/26/efficiently-managing-dotfiles/
• https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Other Tools

• https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi
• https://yadm.io
• https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
• https://dotfiles.github.io
• https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
• https://starship.rs
• https://asdf-vm.com/#/
• https://www.defaults-write.com
• https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli
• https://github.com/pastjean/osx-sync-env